CVE-2019-20433

libaspell.a in GNU Aspell before 0.60.8 has a buffer over-read for a string ending with a single '\0' byte, if the encoding is set to ucs-2 or ucs-4 outside of the application, as demonstrated by the ASPELL_CONF environment variable.

Score

CVSS 3.1 9.1 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2020-01-27

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-125

Affected products

• Aspell (Gnu)

References

• http://aspell.net/buffer-overread-ucs.txt